“Travel postponed”. For now Pope Francis is not leaving for Africa and the reason is health: for some months the Pope has suffered from knee pain in his right leg, that is, a pain in the knee due to simple daily actions, such as walking or kneeling.
Yesterday Pope Francis in the Vatican, at the Apostolic Palace, met with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen: the crisis in Ukraine and the common commitment to put an end to the conflict, without neglecting its food consequences and humanitarian aspects. main at the center of the visit.
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Then a few hours after the meeting came the announcement. The Pope – through the Vatican Press Office – made it known that the trip to Africa scheduled for July 2 to 7 will be postponed “to a new date to be defined”. A decision, he explains, taken “with regret” but dictated by the “request of the doctors” and “not to frustrate the results of the knee therapies still in progress”. So a postponed visit to both the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, with another trip scheduled soon after to Canada and which at this point may no longer be so obvious.
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